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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Gay Looks Men
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Letting People Stuff
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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Divorce Mirrors People
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Art Inspired Pops
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Director Song Thinking
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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Numbers Pressure Real
I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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Done Energy Sometimes
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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Bars Email Writing
If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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might Past Redneck
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate

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